Re: Bug#538137: gettext: Please allow specifying options for msgmerge in Makevars (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Guillem Jover wrote on 2009-07-23 [1]:
> There's no clean way currently to specify additional options for
> msgmerge for all invokations. We'd like to be able to use
> ''--previous'' in several project but it can only be set partially by
> defining ''MSGMERGE="$MSGMERGE --previous'' in configure.ac after having
> called AM_GNU_GETTEXT, but that one does not affect the MSGMERGE
> variable in the Makefile.in.in only MSMERGE_UPDATE.
> 
> Would be nice to be able to specify additional options in Makevars in
> the same way as currently allowed for xgettext.

Thank you for the suggestion. I am adding to po/Makevars this paragraph:

# These options get passed to msgmerge.
# Useful options are in particular:
#   --previous            to keep previous msgids of translated messages,
#   --quiet               to reduce the verbosity.
MSGMERGE_OPTIONS =

and the corresponding code to po/Makefile.in.in.

Bruno

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2009-07/msg00048.html